Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is the most efficient way to nab the lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by ...

Police got quite the shock after getting a call reporting a “Komodo dragon” living inside a Bay Area home. Officers from the ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Reptiles were everywhere at Fairplex in Pomona last weekend, when the Reptile Super Show came to town. The event, held Jan. 10 and 11, showcased a variety of reptiles and amphibians. Snakes, lizards, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles ...

Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern California home probably weren’t sure what to expect. The officers found a young ornate Nile monitor had been ...

Retired accountant Rees, 80, died in late October after the Coral Adventurer cruise ship left Lizard Island – on the Great Barrier Reef, 90km northeast of Cooktown in far north Queensland – without ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

Cold weather in the Fort Myers-Naples area may cause invasive iguanas to fall from trees. Temperatures below 50 degrees can incapacitate cold-blooded reptiles like iguanas and cane toads. While the ...